{"id":1486,"date":"2009-05-31T12:21:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T10:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2009-05-31T12:21:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T10:21:53","slug":"howcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/31\/howcast\/","title":{"rendered":"howcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1487\" title=\"howcast_logo_nov08\" src=\"https:\/\/cloud.norai.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/howcast_logo_nov08.png\" alt=\"howcast_logo_nov08\" width=\"150\" height=\"46\" \/>I just wanted to mention a very nice app for the iphone: <a href=\"http:\/\/howcast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">howcast<\/a>,<\/p>\n<div class=\"asset-body\">\n<p>It is basically a &#8220;How-to&#8221; video aggregator\u00a0\u00a0which has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.howcast.com\/2009\/05\/howcast-for-iphone-application-tops-500000-downloads\/\">hit 500,000 downloads<\/a>\u00a0of its iPhone app and a quick spin of the service shows why &#8211; it&#8217;s fabulous. Just six months after\u00a0launching, HowCast is already the second most popular free app in the Lifestyle category &#8211; behind the YellowPages and ahead of AAA Discounts. That&#8217;s pretty impressive.<\/p>\n<p>HowCast was founded by a team of former Google and YouTube employees and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/02\/06\/ex-googlers-launch-intsructional-video-site-howcast-raise-8-million-a-round\/\">raised $8 million in venture funding<\/a>\u00a0before it launched. The iPhone app is a great way to learn new things on the go and it&#8217;s a lot of fun.<\/div>\n<div id=\"more\" class=\"asset-more\">\n<p>There&#8217;s already an extensive HowCast community of video makers, Facebook Connect integration and an API. As we wrote in our original review of the app, it feels a little limited compared to the full website &#8211; but as an iPhone app it&#8217;s great.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wanted to mention a very nice app for the iphone: howcast, It is basically a &#8220;How-to&#8221; video aggregator\u00a0\u00a0which has\u00a0hit 500,000 downloads\u00a0of its iPhone app and a quick spin of the service shows why &#8211; it&#8217;s fabulous. Just six months after\u00a0launching, HowCast is already the second most popular free app in the Lifestyle category [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-iphone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}